- Your organization has started to realize benefits from adopting Agile principles and practices. However, these advances are contained within your IT organization.
- You are seeking to extend Agile development beyond IT into other areas of the organization. You are looking for a coordinated approach aligned to business priorities.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Not all lessons from scaling Agile to IT are transferable. IT Agile scaling processes are tailored to IT’s scope, team, and tools, which may not account for diverse attributes within your organization.
- Control may be necessary for coordination. With increased time-to-value, enforcing consistent cadences, reporting, and communication is a must if teams are not disciplined or lack good governance.
- Extend Agile in departments tolerant to change. Incrementally roll out Agile in departments where its principles are accepted (e.g. a culture that embraces failures as lessons).
Impact and Result
- Complete an assessment of your prior efforts to scale Agile across IT to gauge successful, consistent adoption. Identify the business objectives and the group drivers that are motivating the extension of Agile to the business.
- Understand the challenges that you may face when extending Agile to business partners. Investigate the root causes of existing issues that can derail your efforts.
- Ideate solutions to your scaling challenges and envision a target state for your growing Agile environment. Your target state should realize new opportunities to drive more business value and eliminate current activities driving down productivity.
- Coordinate the implementation and execution of your scaling Agile initiatives with an implementation action plan. This collaborative document will lay out the process, roles, goals, and objectives needed to successfully manage your Agile environment.
Extend Agile Practices Beyond IT Research & Tools
Start here – read the Executive Brief
Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should extend Agile practices to improve product delivery, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the ways we can support you in completing this project.Besides the small introduction, subscribers and consulting clients within this management domain have access to:
- Extend Agile Practices Beyond IT – Phases 1-3
1. Assess your readiness to scale agile vertically
Assess your readiness to scale Agile vertically by identifying and mitigating potential Agile maturity gaps remaining after scaling Agile across your IT organization.
- Extend Agile Practices Beyond IT – Phase 1: Assess Your Readiness to Scale Agile Vertically
- Agile Maturity Assessment Tool
2. Establish an enterprise scaled agile framework
Complete an overview of various scaled Agile models to help you develop your own customized delivery framework.
- Extend Agile Practices Beyond IT – Phase 2: Establish an Enterprise Scaled Agile Framework
- Framework Selection Tool
3. Create your implementation action plan
Determine the effort and steps required to implement your extended delivery framework.
- Extend Agile Practices Beyond IT – Phase 3: Create Your Implementation Action Plan
Workshop: Extend Agile Practices Beyond IT
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
1 Assess Current State of Agile Maturity
The Purpose
Assess your readiness to scale Agile vertically.
Identify and mitigate potential Agile maturity gaps remaining after scaling Agile across your IT organization.
Key Benefits Achieved
IT Agile maturity gaps identified and mitigated to ensure successful extension of Agile to the business
Activities
1.1 Characterize your Agile implementation using the CLAIM model.
1.2 Assess the maturity of your Agile teams and organization.
Outputs
Maturity gaps identified with mitigation requirements
2 Establish an Enterprise Scaled Agile Framework
The Purpose
Complete a review of scaled Agile models to help you develop your own customized delivery framework.
Key Benefits Achieved
A customized Agile delivery framework
Activities
2.1 Explore various scaled frameworks.
2.2 Select an appropriate scaled framework for your enterprise.
2.3 Define the future state of your team and the communication structure of your functional business group.
Outputs
Blended framework delivery model
Identification of team and communication structure impacts resulting from the new framework
3 Create Your Implementation Action Plan
The Purpose
Create your implementation action plan for the new Agile delivery framework.
Key Benefits Achieved
A clearly defined action plan
Activities
3.1 Define your value drivers.
3.2 Brainstorm the initiatives that must be completed to achieve your target state.
3.3 Estimate the effort of your Agile initiatives.
3.4 Define your Agile implementation action plan.
Outputs
List of target state initiatives
Estimation of effort to achieve target state
An implementation action plan